carbon credits

Carbon credits body releases new methodology for protecting forests and ensuring REDD projects deliver high-integrity carbon offsets

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Approach means firms investing in voluntary carbon market projects later found to have underdelivered can now receive insurance claims in either payments or replacement carbon credits

Verra updates Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program to align with major global carbon markets initiatives

Proceeds from sale are paid back to farmers who have introduced Mootral's methane-slashing feed supplement at their farms, company claims

Voluntary carbon market currently valued at less than $500m annually could hit $1.5tn by 2050, according to Barclays

Running Tide successfully sinks biomass to depths of almost a mile off the coast of Iceland delivering open ocean carbon removal for the first time

Rainforest Foundation UK research claims leading global carbon offset schemes are failing forests, people and the climate – but do forest-based carbon credits require root and branch reform?

Former Verra CEO David Antonioli reflects on 15 years at the helm of the carbon offset standards-setter when corporate climate action went mainstream

Mark Carney's Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market is to work closely with Rachel Kyte's Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative through a series of new corporate standards